Posted on 03/11/2008 8:20:37 PM PDT by khnyny
Last April, The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed piece by me titled "Mr. Spitzer Has Gone Too Far." In it I expressed my belief that in America, everyone--including Hank Greenberg--is innocent until proven guilty. "Something has gone seriously awry," I wrote, "when a state attorney general can go on television and charge one of America's best CEOs and most generous philanthropists with fraud before any charges have been brought, before the possible defendant has even had a chance to know what he personally is alleged to have done, and while the investigation is still under way."
Since there have been rumors in the media as to what happened next, I feel I must now set the record straight. After reading my op-ed piece, Mr. Spitzer tried to phone me. I was traveling in Texas but he reached me early in the afternoon. After asking me one or two questions about where I got my facts, he came right to the point. I was so shocked that I wrote it all down right away so I would be sure to remember it exactly as he said it. This is what he said:
"Mr. Whitehead, it's now a war between us and you've fired the first shot. I will be coming after you. You will pay the price. This is only the beginning and you will pay dearly for what you have done. You will wish you had never written that letter."
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
It’s amazing how many lives that man has ruined, often based merely on accusations and intimidation against innocent people.
The Spitzer Files
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120518551881925271.html?mod=djemEditorialPage
Mr. Spitzer Has Gone Too Far
Excerpt:
Recent media reports have focused on the different treatment Warren Buffett and Hank Greenberg have received as the two parties to the same transaction. I wonder if that has anything to do with Mr. Greenberg’s political opposition to the attorney general on the issue of tort reform? Or perhaps his public criticism of the attorney general’s aggressive pursuit of New York corporate executives?
Many companies in the insurance industry — including Mr. Buffett’s — have engaged to a much greater extent in the same business transactions for which Mr. Greenberg is being pursued by Mr. Spitzer and for which he was unceremoniously dismissed from the company he led and grew for 40 years. Singling Mr. Greenberg out does not seem either fair or proper.
Maybe Gov. Spitzer and Mike Nifong can hang out together later?
Nifong wouldn’t want to be in the same room with someone as unethical as Spitzer.
Spitzer is a thug and a punk. I’m laughing my butt off at his fall. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy!
Actually Spitzer sounds like a clone of Hillary.
Typical arrogant New York lawyer. Those who are more religious than I should pray real hard for him in order to offset my sincere wishes and hopes that he is miserable and suffers greatly.
I truly and sincerely wish the dirty,elitist, gun-grabbing, statist bastard a bad year/life/eternity.
On the other hand, as a father I wish strength to his wife and their kids. The horrible weasel has destroyed their present life and they are going to have to rebuild it.
Rent the movie “going to prison”. Good movie, think of Spitzer when you watch it.
Well, you know what they say, “birds of a feather flock together”.
Can you say, "Fresh fish"?
Here’s another telling oldie:
Eliot Spitzer: Ayatollah General
http://www.objectivistcenter.org/showcontent.aspx?ct=1542&h=53
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Ha! Good call.
I just read that his wife was pushing him not to resign.
I have zero sympathy for the woman. She knows who he is, and let him loose on us, the public.
Eliot Spitzer, the Joe McCarthy of Wall Street, done in by a hooker. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy/s
Warren Buffett is a liberal who generally supports Democrats whereas Hank Greenberg was a big donor to the Republican Party. On his way to the Democrat nomination for Governor, Spitzer didn't go after Democrats.
For example, he never went after Carl McCall who was involved in approving Grasso's salary package. He never went after Sandy Weill, who was up to his ears in Citibank shenanigans.
The unequal treatment of Buffett and Greenberg just fits the pattern.
Another oldie but goodie:
“I’m a steamroller Baby
I’m ‘bout to roll all over you”
Don’t slander Joe McCarthy like that. Joe was right about all of it.
Read “Blacklisted by History”. Outstanding book.
Please don’t sully McCarthy’s good name by associating him with the “ I’m a *&^%$^#@ steamroller” Spitzer.
Since you mentioned Hillary, Spitzer sound like a Clinton candidate for U.S. AG. His portfolio shares characteristics with Janet Reno!
Thanks for the link.
February 13, 2008 - Governor Spitzer visiting with veterans at the Batavia VA Medical Center as part of the “National Salute to Hospitalized Veterans.
How did Spitzer get hookered up with this organization? Who referred him?
Exactly. Spitzer set out to do damage to people he considered to be enemies of the (democrat) Party. Which makes this little man even more evil than I first thought. Spitzer, the face of the Democrat Party:
Never, but never, dismiss the incredible stupidity of the American people.
PUNCH-DRUNK WITH POWER.
Or at least, New Yorkers.
“I just read that his wife was pushing him not to resign.”
All the democrat women are like that. Hillary stood by bill and attacked the media.
They get as intoxicated by the power trip as their husbands.
Please dont link Joe McCarthy to this scumbag.What Joe tried to do for this country was commendable.What the scumbag did was ruin some innocent peoples lives.Ps they people Joe was looking at did turnout to be commies to a man.
Voted in by the same bunch of wackos that elected Hillary Clinton a U.S. Senator.
“Eliot Spitzer, the Joe McCarthy of Wall Street”
Hang on....McCarthy was one of the white hats.
Read “Treason” by Ann Coulter for an excellent play-by-play of how he was destroyed (even beyond the grave) by the left.
Joe McCarthy was a real patriot. His name should never be used in the same sentence with scum-suckers like Spitzer.
best regards
WF
I hope he was set up by the powers that be on wall street.If so this will send a message to the next AG and that is be careful whom you come after.This is just so sweet.I just found out that a guy that sued me has been sent to Federal prison for tax fraud.He was a lawyer and accountant.This made my night.
Could be. Nifong was just chosen as the “Pinhead” by O’Reilly, for his welcome to Eve Ensler’s ‘play’ by declaiming he was a “Vagina friendly Mayor”. Change the elected office and...
Reminds of the hall monitor/squealer in high school you’d tune up just for practice [and his lunch money].
I’ve been posting this for days now. He’s another Bill Clinton, Martin O’Malley.
Spitzer is the roll model for what the demoRATs intend to do to all BIG corporations and any one who doesn’t agree with them and their screwy ideas!
John C Whitehead helped beat the NAZIs on D-Day at Omaha Beach, rose to the top of Goldman Sachs, served under Ronald Reagan, took on the evil bully Eliot Spitzer and has now been vindicated, and at the age of 85 still serves as head of the World Trade Center memorial commission.
I think we should take up a collection and send Gov. Spitzer a dozen copies of the “Going To Prison” movie. DVD, VHS — cover all of our bases. Maybe a big bottle of KY to go with it.
That was Nagin, not Nifong.
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